Baie des Anges, France 1959

Bill Brandt made this gelatin silver print, Baie des Anges, France, using a camera and darkroom, and maybe a little bit of magic. Look at the way his fingers stack up, morphing into the stones below. The light and shadow almost sculpt the image. See how his fingers become these monumental, organic shapes? It reminds me of the way Cy Twombly would build layers of marks, not to represent something, but to create a feeling. There’s a real physicality here, like Brandt is right there, arranging the world for us. It's like he's asking, what does it mean to really see something? Photography, at its best, is about embracing ambiguity and multiple interpretations. Just like painting, it's an ongoing conversation across time, an exchange of ideas.